, 1887-09-29
P0rtentous Utterances.

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In former times Southern demo
Crats forced free trade Oh the demo-
Gratis of the North, and thereby COM
| PEELED them To fight hard and often
| losing battle in the Northern indus
trial states. Great changes have
taken place since theu, not the least
of which is the conversion of a large
section of the Southern democracy to
protective principles. SO now, when
such democratic Journals of the North
as the New York Herdd. the Chicago
| Times and the Boston Globe declare
that the tariff must DO reduced, and
insist that the pretensions set up IN
the name of protection must give
way. a multitude of Southern demo-
cratic journals answer that the South
cannot afford to sacrifice protection
and will strenuously resist it, aud
even intimate that persistence in sucL
a purpose will overthrow the demo
cratic party in not few Southern
stales.
Thus, the Birmingham (Ala.) Her
aid, says; I'VE of the South are toe
much in love with our new founo
prosperity to jeopardize it for the
sake OF political sentiments. We like
the democratic party for many rea
sons: wo believe it best for this sec,
ton that it should triumph, but moi
if it threatens to strangle in its infan'
cy our industrial awakening, which
Is pregnant of SO much future good.
The Macon (Ga) Telegraph declare:
that the protective policy is now tn,
American pelicy," the Atlanta ConSti,
tuition characterzes the critics anC
opponents of Mr. Randall as wild
eyed gentry who are trying to reaC
New York, New Jersey, Virginia
North Carolina and Tennessee out Of
the party" and the Petersburg IVA
lndec Appeal says that ''the anti
protection movements are adverse t
that diversity of enterprise and in
dustry which alone eau give this wide
republic self-sustaining thrift; anC
their end is to degrade and subduC
all our meritorious productive ener
gies to the European level, where
speculative trade can drive and cheaI
them at will"
Louisiana, though she stands il
politics with the democratic party
that is, with the anti-protection par
ty-wants protection for sugar, anC
is greatly exercised because it is pro
posed to reduce or repeal the sugar
tax. The New Orleans Times Demo
crdt says: 1T is quite evident tha
sugar is to be made the subject ot
general attack. 1t is impossible tC
prevent the fight now Nothing caI
avert it, and we should be prepared
to meet mighty effort against an in
terest on which 50 much of the wealth
and industry of our state depends
In the same strain ale the comments
of the New Orleans Picdyune, also 4
democratic paper. We quote: The
st. Louis Republican, the leading
democratic organ of Missouri, con-
cludes that to wi pc the sugar indus
try out of existence, to destroy the
work of century and annihilate the
subsistence of 100000 people and
half the capital of our state. can be
done with less disturbance to estab
li5hed industries than by reducing
the tariff on any other article in
general use. Can the Republican
conceive of the terrible and cruel in
jury it suggests?"
The Nashville American says that
the men who are interested in and
are pushing the growing industries
of the South cannot longer endure to
be called robbers" by those with
whom they are expected to affiliate
in politics. "The Southern people" !"
1t says, ''are trying hard to recover
their lost ground. They are engaged
in laudabie pursuits-making iron fol-
ono thing and selling 1t lower than il
was ever known to be sold, and YET
not man engaged in mining coal
and making IRON but is denounced as
a thief and robber. This has been
going on for years, and the Southern
people have borne il, hoping and be-
lieving it was temporary craze
The emphatic statement goes with the
protest, that this ''is becoming simply
unbearable." The Birmingham (Ala.
Age says that President Cleveland
if he hopes to be his own successor
must "stand aloof from the machina-
tions of the Carlisle Watterson free
trade) school, who seek to entanglt
him among the pitfalls of their her
esy:" that there must be put on the
ticEet with Mr.. Cleveland a vice
presidents of pronounced protection
VIEWS" and that nothing less vii
insure victory" Further, the same
paper says: 'The president is certain
of denomination unless he permit.
himself to become entrapped by tho
schemes of Carlisle and Watterson tC
procure his Endorsement of tariff
bill which cannot pass congress no,
be endorsed by the party conven-
tons"
These are not only significant but
portentous utterances. They show
that the democratic party is beseI
with difficulties on the subject ot
protection such as it mas never before
encountered. On the one side is the
inclination Of the larger section OF
the party: on the other is the interest
of the smaller and yet powerful sec.
ton, to whom concessions must be
made. the protection element oi
the party, now reinforced from the
South, is too strong to be whipped
in;" and yet if the democratic part,
cannot change the tariff from it:
present basis of protection to that oil
revenue, it will prove itself unable tc
deal with the problem which it has
based its principal claims to contro
| OF the government.
As an illustration of discrimination
in favor of the pet boom town OIL